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Hogan Edit Storyline Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive. Written by Anuja Varghese <anujav@excite.com> All Women Keep Score... Only The Great Ones Put It In Writing. See more » Genres: Rated R for language and some strong sexuality | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 13 April 2001 (USA) See more » Also Known As: El diario de Bridget Jones See more » Filming Locations: £5,720,292 (UK) (13 April 2001) Gross: Did You Know?

Trivia Aside from bearing a resemblance to Jane Austen 's "Pride and Prejudice", the film also features a number of veterans of Austen film adaptations. Writer Andrew Davies wrote the screenplay for Pride and Prejudice (1995), which starred Colin Firth and Crispin Bonham-Carter . Hugh Grant and Gemma Jones both appeared in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Embeth Davidtz can be seen in Mansfield Park (1999). See more » Goofs When they are in the lake, and Daniel is about to fall down, the overtaking gets close to Bridget and she is combed, when you go away his uncombed hair is seen, you approach and again he right now is combed with the totally straight hair. See more » Quotes Mark Darcy : Yes. You? Bridget : Ah, no. Was at a party in London last night, I'm afraid I'm a bit hungover. [nervous laugh] Bridget : Wish I could be home with my head in a toilet like all normal people... [pause] Bridget : ...ah! New Year's Resolution: drink less... and quit smoking... and quit talking total nonsense to strangers...

actually, quit talking, full stop. [awkward silence] See more » Crazy Credits During the end credits, we see footage of a home movie taken during a birthday party, which also happens to be the birthday party that both Bridget and Mark are at that is referred to several times during the movie. See more » Connections By Arrangement with Warner Bros Records Inc Courtesy of Warner Special Products/Warner Special Marketing (UK) (Pittsburgh, PA) – See all my reviews Being a long time fan of the BJD books (three years and counting), I had nothing but high hopes for the movie version. I was lucky enough to get into a sneak preview last night, and I was not disappointed. The movie, like the book, has the most hilarious lines and moments, and each of the actors portrayed their characters so well you couldn't imagine anyone else in that part. Renee Zellweger IS Bridget, there is just no arguing it. No other actress could have pulled off what Renee did in this movie. Hugh Grant makes for an excellent Daniel, who is completely two faced and has a smarmy sort of charm that makes you want him just as badly as Bridget does.

Colin Firth is a superb Mark Darcy, but that was a given because the character was practically written with him in mind - as all avid BJD readers know, Mark Darcy's character is a play on the Mr. Darcy Firth portrayed in Pride and Prejudice. Some of the more hardcore fans of the book may be disappointed with all the missing jokes and scenes, but to film the entire book would have left us with a 10 hour movie. The writers did an excellent job distilling the essence of the novel, and the finished product has all the charm and wit of the original. The audience, many of whom I'm sure have never read the book (and many of whom, surprisingly, were male), laughed nonstop throughout the film, and everyone seemed to enjoy it thoroughly. As for those of us who have read it, I do believe that this is one of those rare book-to-movie jobs that was really spot-on, and everything that was noticeably changed in the process only makes the movie better. So go see it, it's hands-down one of the best movies of 2001 so far. 57 of 66 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Bridget Jones: Now I'll go home and.......de-bunny Bridget Jones: Now, I'll go home and... de-bunny. Bridget Jones: And that was it. Right there. Right there, that was the moment... I suddenly realized that unless something change soon I was going to live a life where my major relationship was with a bottle of wine and I'd finally die fat and alone and be found three weeks later half-eaten by Alsatians, or I was about to turn into Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Mark Darcy: Mother, I do not need a blind date. Particularly not with some verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and dresses like her mother. Bridget Jones: Interviewer: What do you think about the El Nino phenomenon? Bridget: It's a blip. Latin music's on its way out. Interviewer 1: What do you think about the El Nino phenomenon? Bridget Jones: It's a blip. Latin music's on its way out. Bridget Jones: Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that.

Mark Darcy: Oh yes, they fuckin' do. Bridget Jones: This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers. Bridget Jones: After all, what's worse than a smug married couple? Lots of smug married couples. Bridget Jones: The only thing worse than smug married couple; lots of smug married couples. Mark Darcy: I like you, just the way you are. Mark Darcy: No, I like you very much. Just as you are. Bridget's Mum: To be honest darling, I'm not sure Julian isn't a bit of a shit. Bridget's Mum: To be honest darling, I'm not entirely sure... that Julian isn't a bit of a shit. Bridget Jones: Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess with a very bad man between her thighs... Mum, hi. Bridget Jones: Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs... Mum... Hi. Bridget Jones: At least, now that I'm in my thirties, I can hold my drink.

×Close Submit a Quote from 'Bridget Jones's Diary' A quote can be a single line from one character or a memorable dialog between several characters. Please make your quotes accurate. Quotes will be submitted for approval by the RT staff. Example: Mark Muller, Bridget Jones' real Mr Darcy | Interviews | guardian.co.uk Film The Guardian 'Wh o would play you in a Hollywood film?" is not a question most lawyers ever need face. But Mark Muller, a barrister with chambers in Gray's Inn Square, London, knows the answer to that question: last week he watched Colin Firth play a character modelled on him at the premiere of Bridget Jones's Diary. With a lawyer's penchant for niceties, however, Muller is keen to point out that the "real Mark Darcy" tag is overblown: he was a consultant, rather than the inspiration, for the character of Mark Darcy, human rights barrister and noble, reticent rival to love-rat Daniel Cleaver as played by Hugh Grant. And he didn't actually get to pick the actor.

Firth, the most English of sex symbols - he made his name playing Jane Austen's Darcy on the Beeb, after all - was part of the Bridget Jones phenomenon from the beginning, as a lust object for Bridget and friends, and so a natural choice for the big screen. Screen immortality notwithstanding, Muller has pressing concerns in the real world as chairman of the Kurdish Human Rights Project and vice-chairman of the Bar Human Rights Committee. In the film, Darcy is briefly seen defending a Kurdish revolutionary leader who is faced with extradition: this was based on a real case of Muller's, that of Kani Yilmaz. Muller is now representing the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in a case against Turkey, where he faces the death sentence. "If we win, it will effectively abolish the death penalty in Europe, and the case will become the basis for argument against the death penalty in the USA and elsewhere." Yesterday, Working Title films, the company that produced Bridget Jones's Diary, held a fundraising screening for human rights projects.

Muller was approached to help the producers, directors and scriptwriters develop the character of Mark Darcy through friends in the film industry: it was on a Kenyan holiday in 1997 that included Eric Fellner of Working Title that he read the first Bridget Jones book. "I enjoyed it, but I remember thinking that beyond this idea of a human rights barrister as a noble beast there wasn't much content to the character." Muller was unsurprised by Helen Fielding's choice of career for Darcy. "If you're trying to create a character who's noble but also a bit dark, a barrister is not a bad one to go for. And if you're thinking about a modern day knight in shining armour, most lawyers don't fulfill that criteria, but human rights lawyers do: righting wrongs and representing people who are disadvantaged. Especially if they happen to come from a privileged background and they don't really need to do it." The Mark Darcy you will see on screen Muller finds "a bit dull". He was surprised that straw polls at the premiere suggested an even split between those women who favoured Darcy, and those who preferred Bridget's boss, the dastardly Cleaver.

"Grant's character is the one most men like to see themselves as, I think, and I would have thought women would have found him more attractive." In the interests of dramatic narrative, the two male characters are cartoonishly opposed: Darcy stubbornly upstanding and silent; Cleaver, sly, suave and silver-tongued. "I got married two or three years ago. Before that I would have seen myself more like Hugh Grant; happily I'm more like Colin Firth now." On first impressions, he seems somewhere in the middle. Tall and dark like both the film's male leads, he has the plummy voice of Grant but the solider presence of Firth. To cast on looks, you'd have to go for Tom Hanks. He is wearing a dark suit with a pale blue-and-white shirt in large check gingham, spotted tie fastened with a slightly outsize knot in the preferable continental style, rather than the hangman-tight knot favoured by so many Englishmen.

It is a strikingly similar ensemble to Firth's best outfit of the film, when at a hellish dinner party crawling with "smug marrieds" Firth almost finds the nerve to ask Bridget out but is swiftly collared by his terrier-like girlfriend. Perhaps Mark Darcy could do for lawyers what Al Pacino did for investigative journalists in the film The Insider - make them sexy. But isn't the idea of a lawyer sex symbol a bit incongruous? "There's a certain kind of English barrister who, like Darcy, can seem a bit stuffy. Barristers don't tend to wear their wackiness on their sleeve. But they can have a very dry sense of humour, and they can be very individualistic, very funny, often quite wild." Muller is standing as a Labour candidate in the forthcoming general election. Finding himself "ending up in the House of Commons a lot" through his human rights work, he would like to become an MP "to have a public platform to put arguments forward about human rights and foreign policy. I don't intend to give up law and just become an MP." He is standing in Windsor, where he spent part of his childhood.

This geographical detail currently adds a further complication to his life. His wife, Catherine Maxwell Stuart, is also standing as a Labour candidate, near her ancestral home in Scotland. After meeting as students at the London School of Economics, the couple were friends for many years before marrying. Catherine was previously married to a mutual friend, and Muller became godfather to their daughter, Isabella. They became close after Catherine's first husband died soon after Isabella's birth, and have since married and had a child. Despite contracting food poisoning from the canapes at a local Labour party social the previous night, Muller manages to exude enthusiasm for the election campaign. "It will be a challenge, of course, because it's a Tory establishment area. But I hope people in Windsor will see that Labour are now the natural party of government, the party of stability as well as the party of economic fairness." Would not it be difficult to divide his time even further, given he already travels between London, and overseas commitments? He brushes such namby pamby worries aside. "Well, you know, I'll manage, it's not so difficult." He has little enthusiasm, however, for the prospect of further forays into the film industry.

"I'm not really interested." "Very busy," he adds, sounding for a moment like a true Hollywood player. The Book Bridget Joness Diary English Literature Essay The Book Bridget Joness Diary English Literature Essay Published: Last Edited: 23rd March, 2015 This essay has been submitted by a student. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers. I have chosen to work with option six for this essay. I have selected this subject because I would like to study these two books closer, to see if it is fair to compare them. I will deal with the similarities and the dissimilarities in the texts and films. Then I will deal specifically with aspects in the film versions that reinforce these notions. Finally I will sum up my arguments and conclution. In comparing these two texts, I will first deal with the ideal for a successful life, to day and in Jane Austen's time. In her time the aim for a woman was not to get a professionale career. Women, at any rate in the middelclass and in prosperous families, did not get an education and work, as today's womens.

At that time women's education was to learn to dance, play the piano, sing and converse. With that, their "career" was to get married to a good husband. And a good husband, meant a well off man. This was the only way a woman could guarantee a life without any economic worries. If she did not get married, her father and after that her brother had to provide for her. If she did not have a brother, she had to live off what she inherited from her father. And that was often not so much. Thus one can understand the importance of marriage. It was the reality of the time, and a young woman's dream. In today's society a woman can usually provide for herself, since the majority has got an education and a job. In this way they are not economically dependent on a husband. It is no longer a woman's "career" to get married. Still, it is of importance to get a husband. Marriage is still an ideal, and can thus be said to be important to many womens. Today, as at that time, most of young womens dream about a good marriage. Having a career is all well and good, but not if it is at the expense of finding Mr. Right.

All warning implicitly that the heady days of youth, glamour and social freedom are all too soon replacedby the lengthy twilight of terminal single status. (Wheleman, 2000, p. 136) Â In Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary, these ideals are a theme. The aim for Elizabeth and Bridget is to find a good man. And in their story of finding Mr. Right there are similarities in the action and the characters. I will start with the character who distinguishes themself most, Mark Darcy and Mr. Darcy Â Â Darcy's character in both Pride and Prejudice and Bridet Jones's Diary is similar. In the last mentioned the first feeling of likeness of this book and Pride and Prjudice comes when the name Darcy appears. First of all the name is the same, but as we get to know the character we can also recognize traits of character. Both of them are highly respected barristers. The female characters' first impression of Darcy in both books is that he is arrogant, aloof and unapproachable. And it is not without reason. In Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth overhears a conversation between Mr. Darcy and Mr.

Bingley when he talks about her at the first party: "Which do you mean?" Mr. Darcy asked and turned round. He looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and said: "Well, she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me" (....) Elizabeth remained with no very cordial feelings towards him. (Stolthet og Fordom, p 15) Â In this book Mr. Darcy is a newcomer, and there are several people who comprehend him this way: The first part of the night he was admired by everybody, until the enthusiasm for him started to cool off because one thought he had an arrogant and offensive being. It seemed that he fel that he was high above the assembly and he did not show any sign of enjoyment. (Stolthet og Fordom, p.14) In Bridget Jones's Diary Mark Darcy's behaviour to Bridget at their first meeting is not propitious. When Una tries to make Mark take Bridget's phone number, so they can meet, this happens: "I'm sure Bridget's life in London is quite full enough already, Mrs Alconbury", he said. Humph.

It's not that I wanted him to take my phone number or anything, but I didn't want him to make it perfectly obvious to everyone that he didn't want to. (Bridget Jones's Diary, p16) In the film version he does the same as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice; he disparages Bridet within her earshot. Â The difference from Pride and Prejudice is that in this book Bridget is the only one who dislikes Mark. What the rest of the party thinks of him the reader does not get to know. This is because of the angle of the book. We see everything through Bridget's eyes and she is the one who tells the story. In Pride and Prejudice there is a 3. person narrator who tells the story. Besides in Bridget Jones's Diary he is not a newcommer, he is at a party with friends of his parents. We do not experience his aloofness and unapproachability at the party, as we do in Pride and Prejudice. Â The first impression of Darcy in both books is not the best, seen from the female characters' point of view. Both of them misunderstand him.

And he is easily misunderstood because of his beaviour. I will add that in the film versions of the books we see much more of his feelings. By physically seeing the character; you can see expressions and bodylanguage. Both books are about first impressions, and what they can entail. Pride and Prejudice was also originally entitled First Impressions: The emphasis on point of view is, of course, complemented by the novel's own pervasive concern with the power of appearances and the extent to which they are always partial and perhaps misleading - not for nothing was it originally entitled First Imressions. (Hopkins, 2001, p112) The Darcy character is similar, and some of his actions are comparable. He is the eventual saviour|of the family in both books. In Bridget Jones's Diary he saves her mother from jail and shame, when she risks jail because of Julio's swindling. In Pride and Prejudice he saves Lydia, Elizabeth's sister, from shame by forcing a marriage between her and Wickham. Â The difference between these two creations is that Mr. Darcy changes in Pride and Prejudice. He realizes that his behaviour towards Elizabeth has been supercillious.

He excuses himself to her, and they have a conversation and resolve all misunderstanings when they meet at Pemberly. This meeting can be compared to when Anne meets Wentworth in Bath, in Presuasion. Then the silence breaks, and they have a conversation which resolves the situation for them both. This shows that when Austen's characters deside speak their feelings, the ending is going to be happy. Bridget's Mark Darcy does not change, but he tells her that he likes her just the way she is, and that leads to Bridget's misunderstandings being clared up. When they tell eachother their feelings, the ending is happy. Â In Pride and Prejudice we meet Wickham. The first impression of him is that is Mr. Right. He is handsome, charming and easy to speak with. He seems to be too good to be true. Elizabeth develops a good relationship with him, and she finds him attrective. (...) She had dressed particulary carefully for the ball and was in a wonderful mood - quite sure that she would make a conquest this evening.

(Stolthet og fordom, p.77) Wickham also shows interest in her: Wickham and another officer accompanied the sisters back to Longbourn and on the way he was almost exclusively engaged to her. (Elizabeth) (Stolthet og Fordom, p 99) Â In Bridget Jones's Diary we find the parallel to Wickham in Daniel Cleaver. He is handsome, out- going, charming and popular among the women, as Wickham. These two characters have a striking similarity, and do parallel actions in relation to the heroine and the hero. Daniel claims that Mark has had a relationship with his former fiancee, while the truth is that it was Daniel who had a relationship with Mark's former wife. Wickham claims that Mr. Darcy has not fulfilled old Mr. Darcy's wish, and given Wickham the living as a priest. The truth is that Wickham relinguished that, and claimed a legacy of money instead an education in law. And he never did study law. In both cases the heroine belives in Wickham/Cleaver and this leads to sympathy for Wickham /Daniel, and more dislike of Darcy.

Â However, it shows that in both cases Wickham /Cleaver is too good to be true. Both of them have a relationship with another woman, and hurt the heroines' feelings. Both of them are womanisers, and not good marriage prospects. The difference between Wickham and Cleaver is that Wickham marries Elizabeth's sister, whereas Daniel does not merry anyone. The relationships between Bridget and Daniel, and Elizabeth and Wickham are also quite different. Bridget and Daniel have a love affair, which is sexual. This would have been unthinkable in Elizabeth's time. In Bridget Jones's Diary the action between Bridget and Daniel happened at the office, at the workplace. The action in Pride and Prejudice is not in a workplace, but mostly at balls and in people's homes. It was there that people meet. Both of the heroines experience unsuccessful love, and end up with the least likely of them all: Darcy. Â When it comes to the heroines, Bridget and Elizabeth, I do not think these characters are very similar. Bridget is a character you want to laugh at, because of all her attempts at doing things correct.

Bad luck pursues her, and makes comic situations for the reader/ audience. In Bridget Jones's Diary the humour is comic, while in Pride and Preudice it is ironc. Bridget is insecure about herself and acts many different roles in her life; with Daniel she is sexy, a serious career woman at the job inteviews and she wants then to be the perfect couple on the mini break. Bridget also worries about slimming, and wants to have the looks of women in magazines. Because of this I think many women identify with Bridget. Bridget Jones is engaging because she is flawed, and that is probably why Bridget Jones's Diary has become so popular. A female audience recognise themeselves in Bridget. Â Elizabeth is not a character I laugh at, in the same way I do with Bridget. Elizabeth is more confident than Bridget. She is self - contained as is Elinor in Sense and Sensibility and does not play different roles. Maybe she is a character the audience wanted in the 19th century, and which they could identify with. Or maybe the audience at the time wanted to read about someone they could look up to.

Â There are also several other aspects one can say are parallel in these two creations. Both of the mothers behave foolishly, and they are eager to get their daughters married. If the coming -son - in law has a fortune and a good income, it is a distinct advantage: I don't know why she didn't just come out with it and say, 'darling, do shag mark darcy over the Turkey curry, won't you? He's very rich' (Bridget Jones's Diary, p.12) Â Bachelor, dear! Bachelor and with great fortune - four or five thousand pound a year! What good luck for our daughters! (Stolthet og Fordom, p. 8) (...) The only thing she cared about, was to marry her daughters (. 9) Â Both of the mothers have a relationship with their husbands which could have been better. In Pride and Prejudice Mrs. Bennet is a plaintive hypochondriac, who Mr. Bennet does not spend much time with. He often locks himself in the libary, to escape from her, to get some peace and quiet.

The relationship between the parents in Bridget Jones's Diary has some similarities, but it is rather different. Here it is the mother who wants to escape from the father, and she finds herself a new man. Â Mr. Bennet is somewhat mean to his wife, and makes jokes at her expense. His character underlines her foolishness. I think this is his way of bearing life with her. On the other hand, we feel sorry for Mr. Jones, who is vulnerable. He seeks support and advice from Bridget in bad times. Both fathers use their daughtes as interlocutors, for different reasons. Mr. Bennet likes to talk with Elizabeth, because he thinks she is the only woman in the house who is sensible. Both Mr. Bennet and Mr. Jones have a good relationship with their daughters, but are reserved when it comes to marriage and men. Â I also want to campare Bridget's friend, Jude, to Elizabeth's sister Jane. Both of these characters have an unstable relationship with a man, and get hurt by him, Jane by Mr. Bingley and Jude by Vile Richard. Both heroines get angry because their friend/sister gets hurt. The difference is that Mr.

Bingley hurts Jane's feelings because Mr. Darcy has persuaded him to abandon her. In Bridget Jones's Diary Mark Darcy has nothing to do with Vile Richard, or with the relationship between him and Jude. The reader does not get to know why Vile Richard behaves like this. Â The film version of Bridget Jones's Diary reinforces the notion that these two creations can be compared. First of all there is the use of Colin Firth in both productions as Darcy. It is almost as if the 200 year old Darcy has returned in Bridget Jones's Diary. Because they use him for this character, and because he act the role very much like in Pride and Prejudice, you immediately associate with the character in Pride and Prejudice. Â The scene where Mark Darcy disparages Bridget in her earshot is added to the film version. It is not in the book. This happens to Elizabeth, both in the book and in the film. The addition of this scene reinforces the similarity. Â The name Pemberly is the name of Mr. Darcy's property in Pride and Prejudice. In Bridget Jones's Diary Bridget works at Pemberly Press.

This is not mentioned in the book, but in the film. Additionally in the film they show Mark Darcy's parents house. In my opinion, the house is reminiscent me of Pemberly in Pride and Prejudice, both externally and internally. Inside it is fitted out in an 18th century style. Â After I have studied these two creations I have come to the following conclution; I think these two books/films have enough in common to justify comparing. Each of them builds on the notion of a "Cinderella- story", where the heroine, who is an ordinary girl, wins the rich and handsome hero. While there are differences which prevert Bridget Jones's Diary from being merely a copy or "modern version" of Pride and Prejudice, they both build on the same central notions and plot. In the film version of Bridget Jones's the producer has made certain changes, and these changes reinforce the notion of similarities refered to in the title of this essay.

Â Bridget Jones's Diary (film) released | World History Project Apr 4 2001 Bridget Jones's Diary (film) released Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 British romantic comedy film, based on the novel of the same name written by Helen Fielding. The adaptation starred Renée Zellweger as Bridget, Hugh Grant as the caddish Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth as Bridget's "true love" Mark Darcy. A sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, was released in 2004. Before the film came out a considerable amount of controversy surrounded the casting of the American Zellweger as what some saw as a quintessentially British heroine. However, her performance is widely considered to be of a high standard, including her English accent. Helen Fielding has stated in many interviews that her novel was based upon both Jane Austen's work Pride and Prejudice and the popular 1995 BBC adaptation, Pride and Prejudice. This was also reflected in the decision to cast Colin Firth as Darcy, since he played the 'real' Mr Darcy in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

This is not the film's only connection to that serial – the screenplay was co-written by Andrew Davies, who had written the adaptation of Austen's novel for the BBC.[1] Another co-writer was Richard Curtis, and there are elements of Four Weddings and a Funeral and even more so of Notting Hill. The director of the film, Sharon Maguire, is one of Fielding's friends whom the character of "Shazzer" was reportedly based on. In the film "Shazzer" was played by Sally Phillips, who originally auditioned for the role of Bridget, but was not considered a big enough name for the part. Kate Winslet also auditioned for the part and was almost considered for it, but eventually was dismissed since she was too young (25 at the time the auditions took place) to play Bridget. Renee Zellweger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. Source: Wikipedia Added by: Jabril Faraj Related Topics Mark Darcy (Character) - Quotes Mark Darcy (Character) Bridget : Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that. Mark Darcy : Oh, yes, they fucking do.

Mark Darcy : I realize that when I met you at the turkey curry buffet, I was unforgivably rude, and wearing a reindeer jumper. Bridget : [to Cosmo and Woney] Tell me, is it one in four marriages that end in divorce these days, or one in three? Mark Darcy : One in three. Bridget : [as Una Alconberry] No, Pam. Besides, the gravy needs sieving. Mark Darcy : [as Pamela Jones] Surely not, just stir it Una. Mark Darcy : Natasha, this is Bridget Jones. Bridget, this is Natasha. Bridget works in a publishing house and she used to play around naked in my paddling pool. Mark Darcy : I like you, very much. Bridget : Ah, apart from the smoking and the drinking, the vulgar mother and... ah, the verbal diarrhea. Mark Darcy : No, I like you very much. Just as you are. Mark Darcy : I don't think you're an idiot at all. I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous about you. Your mother's pretty interesting. And you really are an appallingly bad public speaker.

And, um, you tend to let whatever's in your head come out of your mouth without much consideration of the consequences... But the thing is, um, what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that, um, in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you, very much. Just as you are. Bridget : You once said you liked me just as I am and I just wanted to say likewise. I mean there are stupid things your mum buys you, tonight's another... classic. You're haughty, and you always say the wrong thing in every situation and I seriously believe that you should rethink the length of your sideburns. But, you're a nice man and I like you. If you wanted to pop by some time that might be nice... more than nice. Mark Darcy : All right Cleaver, outside. Daniel Cleaver : [half laughing] I'm sorry? Outside? Should I bring my dueling pistols or my sword? Bridget : I owe you an apology about Daniel. He said you ran off with his fiancée and left him brokenhearted. Mark Darcy : No, it was the other way around. My wife. My heart.

Mark Darcy : [about Bridget's attempt at caper berry gravy] I have to say, this really is the most incredible shit. Bridget : Did I really run round your lawn naked? Mark Darcy : Oh, yes. You were four and I was eight. Bridget : Well, that's a pretty big age difference. It's quite pervy really. Mark Darcy : Yes, I like to think so. Bridget : I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it. Well, I meant it, but I was so stupid that I didn't mean what I meant... After all, it's only a diary. Everyone knows diaries are just... full of crap. Mark Darcy : Yes, I know that. I was just buying you a new one. Mark Darcy : I should have done this years ago. Bridget Jones’s Diary | Variety Print March 28, 2001 | 11:00PM PT As the Bible of thirtysomething single women everywhere, "Bridget Jones's Diary" is one of the most eagerly anticipated book-to-screen adaptations in recent memory.

Informed by author Helen Fielding's droll observations of a year in the life of her weight-obsessed, love-starved heroine, the novel hit a bull's-eye with women on both sides of the Atlantic. As a film, however, item misses its mark, failing to capitalize on the staccato rhythms and sardonic wit of Bridget's inner life. As the Bible of thirtysomething single women everywhere, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” is one of the most eagerly anticipated book-to-screen adaptations in recent memory. Informed by author Helen Fielding’s droll observations of a year in the life of her weight-obsessed, love-starved heroine, the novel hit a bull’s-eye with women on both sides of the Atlantic. As a film, however, item misses its mark, failing to capitalize on the staccato rhythms and sardonic wit of Bridget’s inner life. That said, pic’s pre-sell value is solid enough to suggest initially healthy B.O. that could continue to generate decent returns, even as it will inevitably disappoint some of the book’s devotees.

Introduced in a series of columns in the U.K.’s Independent, Fielding’s lovably imperfect Bridget, with her incessant calorie counting, cigarette smoking and wine-swilling, inflected the British vernacular with a personal lexicon that divided her community into “Singletons” and “Smug-marrieds.” Little surprise, then, that the unlikely casting of American thesp Renee Zellweger over British actresses caused a row not seen since Tom Cruise donned fangs to play the vampire Lestat. The good news is that Zellweger delivers as Bridget, and her fellow actors, including Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as the men she must choose between, are exceptionally well cast. The bad news is that despite being edited down to a bare-bones 90-odd minutes, forcing the elimination of key characters and scenes and the underdevelopment of others, pic manages to feel, paradoxically, as dramatically flabby as the 10 pounds Bridget cannot seem to shed. Things start off promisingly, with Bridget alone in her flat comically crooning along with the radio.

Awash in red flannel pajamas and wine-induced haze, cheerfully oblivious and singing “All by Myself,” Zellweger breathes full-bodied life into Bridget. Opening title sequence is the movie’s best bit. Soon she’s off to a holiday turkey-curry buffet where, for the umpteenth time, family friends barrage her with questions about her love life. Though her irrepressible mum (Gemma Jones) is scheming to fix her up with a childhood friend, party guest and top barrister Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget, who suffers from foot-in-mouth disease, botches the encounter. Needless to say, it is not a love connection. It’s not that Mark Darcy is so awful; it’s just that he’s a sartorially challenged snob who loftily dismisses Bridget’s attempt to make conversation. She much prefers mooning over Daniel Cleaver (Grant), her cad of a boss who has finally begun to take notice of her Ally McBeal-length skirts. After a blissful and sex-filled courtship with Daniel, Bridget makes an unfortunate discovery that ends their romance.

Not to worry, suggest her Singleton best friends Shazza (Sally Phillips), Jude (Shirley Henderson) and Tom (James Callis): There’s life beyond Daniel. Surprisingly, there’s been interest from Mark Darcy, who’s apologized for his earlier behavior. In a thoroughly overstaged sequence that transpires at Bridget’s 32nd birthday party, there’s a showdown between Mark and Daniel leaving Bridget in a “Pride and Prejudice”-type dilemma of choosing between two men. Above sequence, which is not in the book, has the effect of visually underscoring the conflict and further delineating Mark’s and Daniel’s own bitter history, but it reduces her friends to a simpering chorus. Other sequences memorable from the book are re-created with mixed success, including Bridget’s arrival at a “Tarts and Vicars” party in full Playboy bunny regalia, mortified to discover the party theme had been changed, and an infamous scene that finds Bridget trying to scurry up a fire pole. Zellweger is a tireless sport about all of this.

And despite the initial furor over her casting, her best roles (in “Jerry Maguire” and “Nurse Betty”) have indicated a sweetness, vulnerability and comic timing that make her perfect for Bridget. Gaining some 20 pounds, the actress has transformed herself into a lumpy, fleshy everywoman. Sadly, Stuart Dryburgh’s lensing and Rachael Fleming’s costumes go a bit too far in making her look unattractive. As to her accent, Brits may complain about its authenticity, but Americans will be thoroughly convinced. Grant and Firth are impeccable. Firth, whose performance as Mr. Darcy in the BBC’s “Pride and Prejudice” was the model for Fielding’s Mark Darcy, brings unexpected depth to his role, while Grant, for once, thankfully gets to play against type. And perhaps it’s no small coincidence that both actors are mentioned in the book. Documentary director Sharon Maguire, the real-life model for Fielding’s Shazza, has shown an uncertain hand in her first feature.

Script by Fielding, Richard Curtis (“Notting Hill” scribe) and BBC “Pride and Prejudice” writer Andrew Davies could have benefited from using elements of the book’s diary structure, a framework it first adopts then jettisons inexplicably. Pic also seems to suffer in some scenes from a lack of color correction. Bridget Jones's Diary Production A Miramax Films release of a Universal Pictures/StudioCanal/Miramax Films presentation of a Working Title production. Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jonathan Cavendish. Executive producer, Helen Fielding. Co-producers, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Screenplay, Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis, based on the novel by Fielding. Crew Camera (Technicolor), Stuart Dryburgh; editor, Martin Walsh; music, Patrick Doyle; music supervisor, Nick Angel; production designer, Gemma Jackson; supervising art director, David Warren; costume designer, Rachael Fleming; sound (Dolby), David Crozier; line producer, Peter McAleese; assistant director, Stuart Renfrew; casting, Michelle Guish.

Reviewed at Charles Aidikoff Theater, L.A., March 28, 2001. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 92 MIN. With Bridget Jones - Renee Zellweger Mark Darcy - Colin Firth Daniel Cleaver - Hugh Grant Bridget's Mum - Gemma Jones Bridget's Dad - Jim Broadbent Natasha - Embeth Davidtz Jude - Shirley Henderson Shazza - Sally Phillips Tom - James Callis Reviewing The Book Bridget Joness Diary English Literature Essay Reviewing The Book Bridget Joness Diary English Literature Essay Published: Last Edited: 23rd March, 2015 This essay has been submitted by a student. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers. I have chosen to work with option six for this essay. I have selected this subject because I would like to study these two books closer, to see if it is fair to compare them. I will deal with the similarities and the dissimilarities in the texts and films. Then I will deal specifically with aspects in the film versions that reinforce these notions. Finally I will sum up my arguments and conclution.

In comparing these two texts, I will first deal with the ideal for a successful life, to day and in Jane Austen's time. In her time the aim for a woman was not to get a professionale career. Women, at any rate in the middelclass and in prosperous families, did not get an education and work, as today's womens. At that time women's education was to learn to dance, play the piano, sing and converse. With that, their "career" was to get married to a good husband. And a good husband, meant a well off man. This was the only way a woman could guarantee a life without any economic worries. If she did not get married, her father and after that her brother had to provide for her. If she did not have a brother, she had to live off what she inherited from her father. And that was often not so much. Thus one can understand the importance of marriage. It was the reality of the time, and a young woman's dream. In today's society a woman can usually provide for herself, since the majority has got an education and a job. In this way they are not economically dependent on a husband.

It is no longer a woman's "career" to get married. Still, it is of importance to get a husband. Marriage is still an ideal, and can thus be said to be important to many womens. Today, as at that time, most of young womens dream about a good marriage. Having a career is all well and good, but not if it is at the expense of finding Mr. Right. All warning implicitly that the heady days of youth, glamour and social freedom are all too soon replacedby the lengthy twilight of terminal single status. (Wheleman, 2000, p. 136) Â In Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary, these ideals are a theme. The aim for Elizabeth and Bridget is to find a good man. And in their story of finding Mr. Right there are similarities in the action and the characters. I will start with the character who distinguishes themself most, Mark Darcy and Mr. Darcy Â Â Darcy's character in both Pride and Prejudice and Bridet Jones's Diary is similar. In the last mentioned the first feeling of likeness of this book and Pride and Prjudice comes when the name Darcy appears.

First of all the name is the same, but as we get to know the character we can also recognize traits of character. Both of them are highly respected barristers. The female characters' first impression of Darcy in both books is that he is arrogant, aloof and unapproachable. And it is not without reason. In Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth overhears a conversation between Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley when he talks about her at the first party: "Which do you mean?" Mr. Darcy asked and turned round. He looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and said: "Well, she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me" (....) Elizabeth remained with no very cordial feelings towards him. (Stolthet og Fordom, p 15) Â In this book Mr. Darcy is a newcomer, and there are several people who comprehend him this way: The first part of the night he was admired by everybody, until the enthusiasm for him started to cool off because one thought he had an arrogant and offensive being. It seemed that he fel that he was high above the assembly and he did not show any sign of enjoyment.

(Stolthet og Fordom, p.14) In Bridget Jones's Diary Mark Darcy's behaviour to Bridget at their first meeting is not propitious. When Una tries to make Mark take Bridget's phone number, so they can meet, this happens: "I'm sure Bridget's life in London is quite full enough already, Mrs Alconbury", he said. Humph. It's not that I wanted him to take my phone number or anything, but I didn't want him to make it perfectly obvious to everyone that he didn't want to. (Bridget Jones's Diary, p16) In the film version he does the same as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice; he disparages Bridet within her earshot. Â The difference from Pride and Prejudice is that in this book Bridget is the only one who dislikes Mark. What the rest of the party thinks of him the reader does not get to know. This is because of the angle of the book. We see everything through Bridget's eyes and she is the one who tells the story. In Pride and Prejudice there is a 3. person narrator who tells the story.

Besides in Bridget Jones's Diary he is not a newcommer, he is at a party with friends of his parents. We do not experience his aloofness and unapproachability at the party, as we do in Pride and Prejudice. Â The first impression of Darcy in both books is not the best, seen from the female characters' point of view. Both of them misunderstand him. And he is easily misunderstood because of his beaviour. I will add that in the film versions of the books we see much more of his feelings. By physically seeing the character; you can see expressions and bodylanguage. Both books are about first impressions, and what they can entail. Pride and Prejudice was also originally entitled First Impressions: The emphasis on point of view is, of course, complemented by the novel's own pervasive concern with the power of appearances and the extent to which they are always partial and perhaps misleading - not for nothing was it originally entitled First Imressions. (Hopkins, 2001, p112) The Darcy character is similar, and some of his actions are comparable. He is the eventual saviour|of the family in both books.

In Bridget Jones's Diary he saves her mother from jail and shame, when she risks jail because of Julio's swindling. In Pride and Prejudice he saves Lydia, Elizabeth's sister, from shame by forcing a marriage between her and Wickham. Â The difference between these two creations is that Mr. Darcy changes in Pride and Prejudice. He realizes that his behaviour towards Elizabeth has been supercillious. He excuses himself to her, and they have a conversation and resolve all misunderstanings when they meet at Pemberly. This meeting can be compared to when Anne meets Wentworth in Bath, in Presuasion. Then the silence breaks, and they have a conversation which resolves the situation for them both. This shows that when Austen's characters deside speak their feelings, the ending is going to be happy. Bridget's Mark Darcy does not change, but he tells her that he likes her just the way she is, and that leads to Bridget's misunderstandings being clared up. When they tell eachother their feelings, the ending is happy. Â In Pride and Prejudice we meet Wickham. The first impression of him is that is Mr. Right.

He is handsome, charming and easy to speak with. He seems to be too good to be true. Elizabeth develops a good relationship with him, and she finds him attrective. (...) She had dressed particulary carefully for the ball and was in a wonderful mood - quite sure that she would make a conquest this evening. (Stolthet og fordom, p.77) Wickham also shows interest in her: Wickham and another officer accompanied the sisters back to Longbourn and on the way he was almost exclusively engaged to her. (Elizabeth) (Stolthet og Fordom, p 99) Â In Bridget Jones's Diary we find the parallel to Wickham in Daniel Cleaver. He is handsome, out- going, charming and popular among the women, as Wickham. These two characters have a striking similarity, and do parallel actions in relation to the heroine and the hero. Daniel claims that Mark has had a relationship with his former fiancee, while the truth is that it was Daniel who had a relationship with Mark's former wife. Wickham claims that Mr. Darcy has not fulfilled old Mr. Darcy's wish, and given Wickham the living as a priest.

The truth is that Wickham relinguished that, and claimed a legacy of money instead an education in law. And he never did study law. In both cases the heroine belives in Wickham/Cleaver and this leads to sympathy for Wickham /Daniel, and more dislike of Darcy. Â However, it shows that in both cases Wickham /Cleaver is too good to be true. Both of them have a relationship with another woman, and hurt the heroines' feelings. Both of them are womanisers, and not good marriage prospects. The difference between Wickham and Cleaver is that Wickham marries Elizabeth's sister, whereas Daniel does not merry anyone. The relationships between Bridget and Daniel, and Elizabeth and Wickham are also quite different. Bridget and Daniel have a love affair, which is sexual. This would have been unthinkable in Elizabeth's time. In Bridget Jones's Diary the action between Bridget and Daniel happened at the office, at the workplace. The action in Pride and Prejudice is not in a workplace, but mostly at balls and in people's homes. It was there that people meet.

Both of the heroines experience unsuccessful love, and end up with the least likely of them all: Darcy. Â When it comes to the heroines, Bridget and Elizabeth, I do not think these characters are very similar. Bridget is a character you want to laugh at, because of all her attempts at doing things correct. Bad luck pursues her, and makes comic situations for the reader/ audience. In Bridget Jones's Diary the humour is comic, while in Pride and Preudice it is ironc. Bridget is insecure about herself and acts many different roles in her life; with Daniel she is sexy, a serious career woman at the job inteviews and she wants then to be the perfect couple on the mini break. Bridget also worries about slimming, and wants to have the looks of women in magazines. Because of this I think many women identify with Bridget. Bridget Jones is engaging because she is flawed, and that is probably why Bridget Jones's Diary has become so popular. A female audience recognise themeselves in Bridget. Â Elizabeth is not a character I laugh at, in the same way I do with Bridget. Elizabeth is more confident than Bridget.

She is self - contained as is Elinor in Sense and Sensibility and does not play different roles. Maybe she is a character the audience wanted in the 19th century, and which they could identify with. Or maybe the audience at the time wanted to read about someone they could look up to. Â There are also several other aspects one can say are parallel in these two creations. Both of the mothers behave foolishly, and they are eager to get their daughters married. If the coming -son - in law has a fortune and a good income, it is a distinct advantage: I don't know why she didn't just come out with it and say, 'darling, do shag mark darcy over the Turkey curry, won't you? He's very rich' (Bridget Jones's Diary, p.12) Â Bachelor, dear! Bachelor and with great fortune - four or five thousand pound a year! What good luck for our daughters! (Stolthet og Fordom, p. 8) (...) The only thing she cared about, was to marry her daughters (. 9) Â Both of the mothers have a relationship with their husbands which could have been better. In Pride and Prejudice Mrs.

Bennet is a plaintive hypochondriac, who Mr. Bennet does not spend much time with. He often locks himself in the libary, to escape from her, to get some peace and quiet. The relationship between the parents in Bridget Jones's Diary has some similarities, but it is rather different. Here it is the mother who wants to escape from the father, and she finds herself a new man. Â Mr. Bennet is somewhat mean to his wife, and makes jokes at her expense. His character underlines her foolishness. I think this is his way of bearing life with her. On the other hand, we feel sorry for Mr. Jones, who is vulnerable. He seeks support and advice from Bridget in bad times. Both fathers use their daughtes as interlocutors, for different reasons. Mr. Bennet likes to talk with Elizabeth, because he thinks she is the only woman in the house who is sensible. Both Mr. Bennet and Mr. Jones have a good relationship with their daughters, but are reserved when it comes to marriage and men. Â I also want to campare Bridget's friend, Jude, to Elizabeth's sister Jane.

Both of these characters have an unstable relationship with a man, and get hurt by him, Jane by Mr. Bingley and Jude by Vile Richard. Both heroines get angry because their friend/sister gets hurt. The difference is that Mr. Bingley hurts Jane's feelings because Mr. Darcy has persuaded him to abandon her. In Bridget Jones's Diary Mark Darcy has nothing to do with Vile Richard, or with the relationship between him and Jude. The reader does not get to know why Vile Richard behaves like this. Â The film version of Bridget Jones's Diary reinforces the notion that these two creations can be compared. First of all there is the use of Colin Firth in both productions as Darcy. It is almost as if the 200 year old Darcy has returned in Bridget Jones's Diary. Because they use him for this character, and because he act the role very much like in Pride and Prejudice, you immediately associate with the character in Pride and Prejudice. Â The scene where Mark Darcy disparages Bridget in her earshot is added to the film version. It is not in the book. This happens to Elizabeth, both in the book and in the film.

The addition of this scene reinforces the similarity. Â The name Pemberly is the name of Mr. Darcy's property in Pride and Prejudice. In Bridget Jones's Diary Bridget works at Pemberly Press. This is not mentioned in the book, but in the film. Additionally in the film they show Mark Darcy's parents house. In my opinion, the house is reminiscent me of Pemberly in Pride and Prejudice, both externally and internally. Inside it is fitted out in an 18th century style. Â After I have studied these two creations I have come to the following conclution; I think these two books/films have enough in common to justify comparing. Each of them builds on the notion of a "Cinderella- story", where the heroine, who is an ordinary girl, wins the rich and handsome hero. While there are differences which prevert Bridget Jones's Diary from being merely a copy or "modern version" of Pride and Prejudice, they both build on the same central notions and plot. In the film version of Bridget Jones's the producer has made certain changes, and these changes reinforce the notion of similarities refered to in the title of this essay.

Â View All Photos (22) Movie Info Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal with her job in publishing, she visits her parents for a Christmas party. They try to set her up with Mark (Colin Firth), the visiting son of one of their neighbors. Snubbed by Mark, she instead falls for her boss Daniel (Hugh Grant), a dashing lothario who begins to send her suggestive e-mails that soon lead to a dinner date proposition. Daniel reveals that he and Mark attended college together, during which time Mark had an affair with his fiancée. When Bridget finds Daniel cavorting with an American colleague, she decides to change her life with a new job as a TV presenter. At a dinner party, she bumps into Mark again, who expresses his affection for her; when Daniel claims he wants Bridget back, the two fight over who deserves her affections the most.

Popular British performers Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, and Shirley Henderson appear in the supporting cast. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi Rating: R (for language and some strong sexuality) Genre: Bridget Jones's Diary Movie Review What parents need to know Positive messages Despite Bridget's obsessive attempts to improve herself -- and to make herself more appealing to the men in her life -- Mark tells her that he likes her "just the way she is," and doesn't expect her to change. Friends are loyal to each other, and Bridget does try hard. Positive role models There is a reason Bridget Jones is loved by women around the world. She's fighting many of the same singleton problems so many of us are too. That being said, she still smokes, drinks and makes foolish mistakes. Proceed with caution. Violence Characters drink and smoke a lot. Bridget drinks when she's depressed. Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that Bridget Jones's Diary is a romantic comedy that's full of strong language and sexual situations. Many people find Bridget to be a likable, relatable woman, but her obsession with finding a boyfriend, among other things, make her an iffy role model.

Despite her attempts to quit, Bridget drinks and smokes a lot, as do other characters. A great deal of the plot revolves around characters having sex and talking about having sex, with frequent uses of "f--k" and the British equivalent, "shag." User reviews Review this title! What's the story? In BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, Bridget wants to lose weight, stop smoking and drinking, and stop worrying about getting a boyfriend -- so that she can get a boyfriend. But first, she has to get through the gorgeous cad stage -- having an affair with her workaholic, alcoholic, self-centered, needy, but witty and undeniably extremely gorgeous boss, Daniel ( Hugh Grant ). But being taken advantage of by Daniel is not the worst of Bridget's trials. There is her mother, who leaves her father for an oily home shopping channel pitchman with a fake tan. There is showing up for a "tarts and vicars" party in a Playboy bunny outfit because no one told her that they had decided not to have the guests wear costumes after all. There is the rather stunning shot of Bridget from below as she slides down a fireman's pole, broadcast throughout the country on television.

And there is the stiff and disapproving childhood neighbor, Mark Darcy ( Colin Firth ), now a divorced barrister, who always seems to be there just as Bridget encounters disaster. Is it any good? QUALITY Renée Zellwegger is irresistible as Bridget Jones, in this delectable romantic comedy with some sly references to that uber-romantic comedy, Pride and Prejudice. From the opening credits of , when we see her singing along with the radio to "All By Myself" in her flannel pajamas, we know that she is destined to find someone who loves her as much as we do already, and that we will have a lot of fun on the way there. Hugh Grant seems positively relieved not to have to be the stammering, adorable, truehearted "Notting Hill" guy anymore. He plays the part of Daniel, "a disaster with a posh voice and a terrible character," with such relish that viewers enjoy seeing Bridget fall for him almost as much as they enjoy seeing her tell him off. Like his namesake in Pride and Prejudice, though, Darcy turns out to have more tenderness and humor than one would think. And so do the filmmakers.

Firth , who played Darcy in the television miniseries Pride and Prejudice , appears as this Mr. Darcy as well, and his sly and subtle variation on the character is another of the great pleasures in Bridget Jones's Diary. Families can talk about... Families can talk about self image in Bridget Jones's Diary. What sort of factors do you think affect Bridget's body image and self-esteem ? How do we sort through all of the expectations of our families and our society to decide who we will be and what chances we will take? What does someone have to know about herself in order to turn down a Daniel? In order to understand what someone like Darcy has to offer? How does Bridget Jones's Diary relate to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ? What similarities are there between the two stories? What is different in the modern setting? Movie details

Question: What is the first name of Mr Darcy in the 2001 film ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’?
Answer: Mark